The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 4 April 2019   By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: The privately run Space X program has sent the Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station with a load of supplies. The capsule was returned safely back to Earth. The…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 3 March 2019 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Exoplanet hunter TESS has begun surveying the southern hemisphere sky for planets orbiting stars. After 15 years of productive exploration, Mars rover Opportunity has been declared dead by NASA. The dust storm…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 2 February 2019 By Bob Patsiga         In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: China puts a lander and rover on the far side of the Moon. They try raising plants there too. NASA and Japan send probes to two…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 1 January 2019 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: The international committee that governs weights and measures have re-established the standard for the kilogram. What are they goign to use now? The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 has…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 12 December 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: A synopsis and updates for twenty-one of NASA’s recent and ongoing missions. How astrophysicists at the University of California at Santa Cruz are using the Hubble Space Telescope…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 11 November 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates on the JAXA mission to asteroid Ryugu. An interesting discovery revealed by the Cassini mission to Saturn. An exciting new dual mission to planet Mercury. An…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 10 October 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Two research teams at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered bottom quarks, which are significant decay products of Higgs bosons. This represents filling in a major missing…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 9 September 2018 By Bob Patsiga       In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Radar images of Mars indicate that there could be bodies of liquid aqueous solution under the planet’s southern cap. How do we measure the most massive stars?…

The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 26 Number 8 August 2018 By Bob Patsiga     In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates to the Japanese probe Hayabusa-2. A discovery of additional moons around Jupiter has brought its total moon count to a surprising number. New observation techniques have helped…